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Universal Hotel

Universal Hotel

1986•20m•6.2/10
Drama

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6.2/10(9)

Universal Hotel combines objective and subjective elements. In it, Thompson chronicles his research into experiments by Dr. Sigmund Rascher at Dachau in 1942, in which he nearly froze a Polish prisoner and then got a German prostitute to warm him up; Thompson uses photographs from archives in six countries and recounts a subjective dream set in what he calls the Universal Hotel.

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Thompson Films

Language

EN

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Peter Thompson

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